Tom Cruise, NASA Team up to Shoot Film in Space
Tom Cruise, American actor and film producer will film his next Hollywood blockbuster in the outer space.
On Tuesday, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) confirmed that it is currently working with the Hollywood star to shoot an adventure film at the International Space Station (ISS).
“NASA is excited to work with Tom Cruise on a film aboard the Space Station!” Jim Bridenstine, the administrator of the US space agency, wrote on Twitter.
“We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make Nasa’s ambitious plans a reality.”
Tom Cruise in space
According to CNN , a spokesperson of NASA stated that Cruise will launch into space and stay aboard the station. This is a multi-billion-dollar lab orbiting about 250 miles above Earth.
It’s believed that rotating crews of astronauts have been living aboard the ISS continuously since 2000. As a result, NASA is planing to open the station for business and space tourism.
Films have been shot onboard the ISS. It includes a 2002 IMAX documentary and 2012’s Apogee of Fear, filmed by Richard Garriott. Cruise is the first to space-travel.
The movie will come after filming procedures for the seventh installment of Mission Impossible. It is an action spy film also starring Cruise; which was suspended over COVID-19 crisis.
We are yet to know the details of the plot. Deadline reports that it will not be an installment of Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible” franchise.
But it’s unclear how Cruise will pull off this feat. Cruise has insisted on doing his own stunts even at 57; including a freefall at 200 mph in 2018’s “Mission: Impossible — Fallout.” Cruise’s next film is “Top Gun: Maverick.”
He reprises his role as Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, a test pilot and flight instructor. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Paramount has moved “Top Gun: Maverick” off its July 12 release date to Dec. 23, 2020.
